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testimony of a sophisticated woman of Shawnee and Cayuga par- 

 entage whom Dr. Margaret Mead met among the Omaha. The in- 

 formant had long since removed from her own tribesmen, but her 

 childhood impression remained. 



I remember how scared I was of the False-faces; I didn't know what they 

 were. They are to scare away disease. They used to come into the house 

 and up the stairs and I used to hide away under the covers. They even 

 crawled under the bed and they made that awful sound. When I was bad 

 my mother used to say the False-faces would get me. Once, I must have 

 been only 4 or 5, because I was very little when I left Canada, but I remember 

 it so well that when I think of it I can hear that cry now, and I was going 

 along a road from my grandfather's; it was a straight road and I couldn't 

 lose my way, but it was almost dark, and I had to pass through some timber 

 and I heard that cry and that rattle. I ran like a flash of lightning and I 

 can hear it yet. 



